ABSTRACT
The dynamic nature of migration in contemporary times, together with changing understandings of concepts underpinning theories of language learning more broadly, calls also for a re-imagining of community language learning. This chapter presents a case study of community languages in South Australia to demonstrate how a reimagining of the concepts of “language”, “community” and “identity” might reorient language programmes towards a view of language learning more suited to the realities of the young people in these programmes.
